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...chauffeur I know only as Arthur came to my room about 11 o'clock last night and told me that Hopson was in the hotel," said Witness Robinson. "When I went to his room I found Hopson lying on a couch. There was a man, a 'golf pro' named Duncan, with him. Hopson said he felt pretty good and would be ready to testify in a couple of days...
...What kind of a looking man is Hopson?" asked Chairman O'Connor, who lives at the Shoreham...
...Chairman Black's and the Washington police, swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...
Then Chairman O'Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
When the O'Connor agents arrived they discovered that newshawks had beat them to it, were waiting to report the capture. Only thing lacking was the presence of Mr. Hopson. Host Hurley was hopping...